Word: sinos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheng explained that Premier T. V. Soong, during his negotiations with Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the Sino-Soviet Treaty of last August, had asked that the Fushun Combine be excluded from joint ownership provisions; Stalin had agreed. What did Cheng intend to do about the Russians living in the Combine's Yamato Hotel and working in its main offices? "I'll just ignore them," said Cheng. "Fushun's Mayor Yung Ning Lou has instructed 22,000 Japanese workers not to take orders from the Russians, but only from me. In the future, the Russians...
...Frank Herrington was wide awake last week. Observers agreed that his contribution to Sino-American relations in the past three years has been priceless. Back in the U.S., his wife was "fairly sure" that he would not take up his old practice again in Middletown, N.Y. (pop. 22,000); he had already written to ask her how she would like to settle down in Shanghai...
...World War II the U.S. Navy, seeking weather stations behind Jap lines, joined with BIS in setting up the fabulous SACO (Sino-American Cooperative Organization), with Tai Li as director. U.S. funds and U.S. experts supported Tai Li. taught him new methods, expanded his guerrillas to 70,000 men. U.S. armed forces received, in return, invaluable data: maps of the South China coast, safe passage for downed airmen, tips on Jap movements...
...Soviet newspaperwoman in Shanghai: "Manchuria is the dreamland for every Russian who has been there. The climate is good. There is work-where the railways are there will always be work, hospitals and universities. I think many will go to Manchuria. That would go very well with our Sino-Russian cultural relations, don't you think...
...Market. The exact shape of the new Sino-Russian relations in Manchuria were still not clear. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, at a notable press interview (see above), admitted that in "informal" talks the Russians had asked the Chinese Government for additional economic concessions in Manchuria...